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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Coach
Follansbee
West Virginia
Louis Leo Holtz
Louis Holtz
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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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I asked you to pack your headgear and shoulder pads, but more importantly your defense and your kicking game, because that's what wins game like this.
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Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
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I give opinions, not advice.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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No, but you can see it from here.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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Attitude determines how well you do it.
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Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
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It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant
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Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
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If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
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I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
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